Archives - 25 June 2013, Tuesday

Everyone in the cryptocurrency world has heard of Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin . But not many have heard of Peter Bushnell, the not-so-mysterious inventor of Feathercoin. On 20 April, he announced his alternative currency to a gaggle of online followers. One mo...

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Bitcoin, Bitcoin, Bitcoin . We’re all a little sick of hearing about it. But statistically speaking, only a small fraction of you actually use (much less understand) the anonymously held cryptocurrency . The rest of us are watching from the sidelines--curious, but skeptical. That’s mo...

7 shortcuts to losing your data (and probably your job!) A pub in East London has become the first in Britain to accept Bitcoin in lieu of real money. The Pembury Tavern, in Hackney, is within easy reach of Shoreditch by fixed-speed bike and is a favourite haunt of the area's many var...

Of course, one has to be an existing Exante customer with available equity to trade the Bitcoin Fund shares, however it’s not necessary to be an investor in the actual Bitcoin Fund itself. This presents a number of interesting possibilities, because commercial processors and large mer...

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The California regulator that oversees the state’s banks, money-transmitters and credit unions thinks the nonprofit organization that advocates for Bitcoin might be in the money-sending business. So late last month Paul Crayton, a lawyer with the California Department of Financial Ins...

The car is real, but don’t expect to buy it with cold hard cash. A 1981 DeLorean DMC-12 is currently on sale by a startup company called Bitcoin Motor , a Craigslist-type marketplace where your credit cards and PayPal accounts are no good, either. The asking price is 300 Bitcoin -- ab...

Bitcoin donations to WikiLeaks increased 1,894% yesterday after Julian Assange pledged his support to whistle-blower Edward Snowden. The Blockchain shows 0.36 bitcoins were transferred to the WikiLeaks wallet address on Sunday, increasing to 7.18 BTC on Monday, following Assange’s tel...

During the Q&A, a member of the audience asked Cameron about the public's awareness of bitcoin. He replied (paraphrasing here) that he felt that "by now most people probably know about bitcoin." Now, there's a long tradition of people who work in major tech hubs such as Silicon Valley...

Lawmakers have become increasingly focused on bitcoins as the virtual currency has gained popularity and value in recent months. But judging by a recent cease-and-desist notice sent to the Bitcoin Foundation, some government types may be taking the "shoot first, ask questions later" a...

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With less than a week left, England’s capital is preparing to receive the Bitcoin London Conference. The event, happening on July 2 at Level39 in Canary Wharf, will have an amazing program and a lot of famous guests from the cryptocurrency world. The program, which you can check here,...

California's Department of Financial Institutions issued a cease-and-desist order (PDF) last month to the Bitcoin Foundation, a nonprofit that advocates for the virtual currency Bitcoin, warning the group against "conducting the business of money transmission" in the state. The letter...

That comes out to $814.22 USD. Hardly staggering. But the Drug Enforcement Administration can nevertheless carve another notch in its bloated belt: In an apparent first for both the DEA and the world's foremost cryptocurrency, the agency has nabbed its first haul of bitcoins from an i...

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One of the crucial features for a digital transaction medium to be viable for payments made in person is that it should be reliable, and nearly instant. A transaction, once created by the sender, should appear on the receiver’s device within one to three seconds. Even five seconds may...

Around the world, governments everywhere are trying to come to terms with technology. Some are finding the pace of change too fast and the flow of information too free for their autocratic hierarchies, and they risk being swept away.In the US and the UK, attempts to generate efficienc...

photo by web-dev-Chris via Wikimedia Commons Bitcoin, the world's foremost digital currency , has finally made it to Miami, and this week Planet Linux Caffe in Coral Gables will become the first business in the city to accept the decentralized digital currency as payment for items on ...

Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.3 is now available from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.3/ This is a maintenance release to fix a denial-of-service attack that can cause nodes to crash. Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github: https://github.com/...

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Last week, the Bitcoin network suffered from a denial-of-service attack that forced the core development team to patch the core reference design. Details are sketchy. CoinDesk first received word of the problem from core developer Jeff Garzik. “Currently dealing with an ongoing, netwo...